Posted on 10/21/2020 3:43:51 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: How many famous sky objects can you find in this image? The featured dark sky composite combines over 60 exposures spanning over 220 degrees to create a veritable menagerie of night sky wonders. Visible celestial icons include the Belt of Orion, the Orion Nebula, the Andromeda Galaxy, the California Nebula, and bright stars Sirius and Betelgeuse. You can verify that you found these, if you did, by checking an annotated version of the image. A bit harder, though, is finding Polaris and the Big Dipper. Also discernible are several meteors from the Quandrantids meteor shower, red and green airglow, and two friends of the astrophotographer. The picture was captured in January from Sardinia, Italy. You can see sky wonders in your own night sky tonight -- including more meteors than usual -- because tonight is near peak of the yearly Orionids meteor shower.
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If you go to the link and hover the cursor over the image, text appears that identifies some of the features in the image.
The folks at NASA hid a dog and a cat in the link again today.
There’s something about Sardinia at night.
Nice Mediterranean Night.
Bttt
This pic is a keeper.
super cool
The night sky...so much easier to find constellations when you do not have to deal with Silver maples in you viewing space.
Mtn Climber thanks!
Ah there we go, Canis Minor in a picture with Leo Minor!
http://pixheaven.net/voir_us.php?taille=grand&nom=zodiaque_scorpion
I’m not sure this website will post correctly. This site called “Pixheaven” is belongs to a French guy who photographs the sun, moon, and constellations against scenic estuaries in France.
Maybe some of you astronomy nerds will identify with this: in my early teens I’d stay up late on winter weekends trying to get a glimpse of the summer constellations coming back which I associated with being out of school. Or, when I was first learning the sky, trying to glimpse a Southern Hemisphere star like Canopus near the Lake Erie horizon. A constellation would just start to appear above the horizon but fade as dawn approached. This guy’s photos remind me of that early period of discovery, waiting for the next constellation or sky object to rise.
The Orion Nebula shows up pretty bright in this photo...right in the center of Orion’s Sword.
In the photo, the Big Dipper is mostly visible just above the horizon in the middle of the picture. The really bright star on the right is Sirius. Above that you can see Orion (the red star is Betelgeuse). In the center the bright star is Capella in Auriga. To the left the bright star is Vega.
I saved it myself LOL
The only red I have ever seen in the night sky was from aircraft.
Lately I have been going out at odd sleepless hours and looking at stars. The horsehead nebula...the nebula not the horsehead...is very visable with binoculars. Still too much city light to see the Andromeda galaxy.
Can you see the night from where you live in Colorado?
Really? Never saw the aurora?
I know its mostly green, but I have seen magnificent things.
The posted pic shows a handfull of red constellations.
The stars are pretty clear in Colorado, but I never spotted the Andromeda galaxy.
Get a Dobson telescope and gps, point that thing to coordinates in deep space.
It’s cheap.
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